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Diagnosed with DCIS: How do I decide on treatment?
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@windyshores Thank you for your response. I am also going flat and I am encouraged by the surgeries not being bad. How long was your recovery? After the block wore off how long did you have to take pain meds? I just don't know enough about all of this to feel like I am making educated decisions. My Dr. said, there was no reason to take my good boob off at this time but then I feel like It's just a waiting game.
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@lmcintosh For me, there was a good reason to take the other breast off. I am just more comfortable with both gone than with one, and as I wrote, we are entitled to symmetry. I also had sensations in my other breast that turned out to be cysts and there was some atypical hyperplasia, so concern about cancer in the other breast can also be a reason.
The block wore off in a few days. I only took half a tylenol/codeine once a day around 4 pm despite the advice to "stay ahead of the pain." I did fine. Recovery was 6 weeks in the sense of not driving and not lifting more than 7 pounds, but I was fully functional much sooner than that.
I had no choice on the first mastectomy. My cancner was grade 3 with lymphovascular invasion. I also did not want radiation and my docs didn't want that for me either. You truly have a choice. Which is hard!